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Direct attached storage

As the name suggests, these are the storage devices that are directly connected to the servers using the host bus. These are enclosures containing a number of disks within. Direct attached storage (DAS) systems offer fault-tolerance features and are able to "hot swap" failed disks and rebuild disks from parity on other disks.

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